The bodies of 74 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe have washed up on a beach west of the Libyan capital, the Red Crescent said Tuesday.
UN Libya envoy Martin Kobler on Wednesday urged the Libyans to make 2017 "the year of decisions" and political breakthrough in implementing a political accord signed more than a year ago.
Italy is sending its ambassador back to Libya, its foreign ministry said on Monday, making it the first Western diplomatic mission to reopen in the divided country.
At least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday (Nov 3).
Two Indian nationals held captive in Libya for over a year have been rescued, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to ensure strict implementation of arms embargo on Libya.
The European Union (EU) on Monday asked the UN Security Council to authorize EU's naval forces in the Mediterranean to enforce the UN arms embargo on Libya.
After a flurry of boat departures that sent hundreds of migrants to their deaths in the Mediterranean, survivors told police they had been kept for weeks on one meal a day in holding houses near the Libyan shore.
The international community is ready to answer Libya's requests for supporting its military forces in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), top diplomats said Monday after an international meeting on Libya in Vienna.
Five years after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the threat posed by violent extremists to global security is far from receding.
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a senior official of the Libyan self-proclaimed government in the capital city of Tripoli, citing that the person obstructed and undermined the country's peace and stability.
While U.S. President Barack Obama has claimed that the terror group Islamic State (IS) is on the defensive, experts say this is clearly not the case worldwide.
French and German Foreign Ministers on Saturday said their countries will support the new Libyan government.
With Islamic State (IS) radicals increasing their power in Libya, the United States is weighing its options in the war-torn North African state, but still no plan has yet emerged.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday faced a marathon grilling from Congressional Republicans about her role in the botched U.S. Libya policy and her initial account of what caused the 2012 Benghazi attack in the first face-off since Clinton announced her White House bid earlier this year.
Libya's internationally recognized House of Representatives (parliament) on Monday rejected the UN-proposed agreement for a unity government, parliament members said.
The U.S. military has launched an airstrike in Libya that targeted and hit an al-Qaida leader, the Pentagon said Sunday.
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